Inscribed in artist's hand on label removed from verso, in brown ink: "Sept 27th 1821, 10 morning, | fine morning after Rainey | night"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.152
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
white (color) | pink (color) | blue | green (color) | texture | motion | science | meteorology | trees | clouds
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Heaven on Earth - The Garden through the Eyes of the Artist (Lenbachhaus Kunstbau, 2007-04-03 - 2007-07-08)Heaven on Earth - The Garden through the Eyes of the Artist (Das Städel, 2006-11-23 - 2007-03-11)Masters of British Painting: John Constable (Musée du Louvre, 2002-10-08 - 2003-01-13)Gentle, Rural and Sublime - English Landscape Paintings and Watercolors, 1750-1850 (Denver Art Museum, 1993-12-11 - 1994-02-06)Oil on Water - Oil Sketches by British Watercolorists (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-08-26 - 1986-11-09)John Constable - A Selection of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (National Gallery of Art, 1969-04-30 - 1969-11-01)
Publications:
Katharine Baetjer, Glorious nature : British landscape painting, 1750-1850, , Zwemmer publisher, London, 1993, pp. 194-195, no. 57, ND1354.4 B34 1993 (YCBA)Christie's sale catalogue : Works of the Late John Constable, R. A. ... Property of the Late Captain Constable ... : 23 June 1890, Christie's, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, June 23, 1890, p. 8, lot 88, Fiche B51 (YCBA) also available online: Art Sales Catalogues Online data base, Lugt entry 49251Constable : le choix de Lucian Freud, Petit Journal des grandes expositions, Paris, 2002, p. 11, fig. no. 22, V 1016 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 58-59, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Constable, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK & New York, NY, 1986, pp. 132, 137, pl. 133, NJ18 C74 C75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Oil on water : oil sketches by British watercolorists, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1986, pp. 18-19, fig. 7, ND467 C67 (YCBA)Robert Hoozee, L'opera completa di Constable, 98, Rizzoli, Milano, Italy, 1979, p. 118, no. 307, NJ18 C74 A12 +H66 (YCBA)John Constable : a selection of paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, , National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1969, pp. 42-43, no. 41, NJ18 C74 U5 (YCBA)Graham Reynolds, Constable's England, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, 1983, pp. 17, 18, fig. 5, NJ18 C74 R496 (YCBA)Graham Reynolds, The later paintings and drawings of John Constable, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1984, p/ 82 (v.1), no. 21.53, pl. 257, NJ18 C74 R485 + (YCBA)Sabine Schultze, The painter's garden : design, inspiration, delight, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, 2006, p. 100, no. 36d, ND1460 .G37 P3513 2006 + Oversize (YCBA)John E. Thornes, John Constable's skies : a fusion of art and science, , University of Birmingham Press, Birmingham, UK, 1999, p. 234, no. 20, pl. 102, NJ18 C74 T56 1999 (YCBA)Pierre Wat, Constable: entre ciel et terre, Herscher, Paris, 1994, pp. 38-9, NJ18 C74 W36 1994
Provenance:
Created by John Constable (1776-1839), the artist, 1821; by descent to his son, Captain Charles Golding Constable (1821-1879); by descent to his widow, Anna Maria Constable (née Blundell, 1841-1893) [a]; sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, England, June 23, 1890 (lot 88, 'Clouds: 27th Sept., 1821') [b]; acquired by Fitzhenry, by 1890 [1]; …; acquired by Camille Groult (1832-1908), Paris [2]; by descent to his son, Jean Groult (1868-1951), Paris [3]; by descent to his son, Pierre Bordeaux-Groult (1916-2007), Paris [4]; privately purchased by Paul Mellon (1907-1999), 1965 [c]; by whom given to the Yale Center for British Art, 1981. Notes: [1] Possibly Joseph Henry Fitzhenry (1835-1913), a dealer and collector who made a large gift of ceramics to the V&A. However, no Constable works appear in his sales and he appears to have primarily acquired medieval objects of virtu. See https://worldcat.org/en/title/171491952 and https://worldcat.org/en/title/171491952 [2] French art collector and heir to a flour-milling family. Began collecting English paintings ca. 1890 from dealers in London, such as Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell. See Grove Art Online, s.v., "Groult, Camille," by Stephane Loire, https://doi.org/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T035112; and "La Collection Groult," L'Illustration 66, no. 3386 (1908): 49-56, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/ucbk.ark:/28722/h2dg8q?urlappend=%3Bseq=59 [3] No Constable paintings were sold in the anonymous Camille Groult sale of 1920, suggesting they remained in Jean Groult's collection until his death. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k320715g [4] No Constable paintings are invoked in Jean Groult's 1952 sale, suggesting they remained in the family until Paul Mellon's purchase in 1965. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000289429 Citations: [a] Graham Reynolds, The later paintings and drawings of John Constable (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984), 1:82, https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:582470 [b] Christie, Manson & Woods. June 23, 1890. Catalogue of the works of the late John Constable, R.A. … The property of the late Captain Constable. https://doi.org/10.1163/2210-7886_ASC-49251 [c] Graham Reynolds, The later paintings and drawings of John Constable (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984), 1:82, https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:582470